Man, there isn't an industry-wide practice of remaking sequels yet, is there? They should get right on that.

It's proficient. Not good or anything, but it won't make you jump off a cliff. CoD4 was rather popular among the more narrativist critics upon release for its use of big, dramatic scripted events. And that whole bit with the dead American.

It's proficient. Not good or anything, but it won't make you jump off a cliff. CoD4 was rather popular among the more narrativist critics upon release for its use of big, dramatic scripted events. And that whole bit with the dead American.

How do you keep the "original […] author's voice" while adding explicit content to works where it is completely irrelevant to the plot and point?

How do you keep the "original […] author's voice" while adding explicit content to works where it is completely irrelevant to the plot and point?

Last couple decades? Goodness, that's why it feels like games haven't changed in my lifetime.

Last couple decades? Goodness, that's why it feels like games haven't changed in my lifetime.

Hey now, I'm all for character development and plot. What I'm not keen on is the idea that using the most gracefully interactive and variable method for delivering a series of connected events is better off presenting linear stories which essentially treat player involvement like treats in dog training.

Hey now, I'm all for character development and plot. What I'm not keen on is the idea that using the most gracefully interactive and variable method for delivering a series of connected events is better off presenting linear stories which essentially treat player involvement like treats in dog training.

I haven't a clue why people are so excited about video games being like movies now. Shouldn't they, being a different medium, have their own narrative structures to exploit?

I haven't a clue why people are so excited about video games being like movies now. Shouldn't they, being a different medium, have their own narrative structures to exploit?

I was hoping this would somehow talk about Guilty Gear. Oh well.

I was hoping this would somehow talk about Guilty Gear. Oh well.

Alas, they are doing the whole "TONIGHT, SOMEBODY DIES" thing (and Heroes guy is listed as a possible casualty). Also, I believe they are just moving the main character to a different office, though the eruption of a world war would give the actual spy plots a certain narrative thrust.

That will hopefully speed its way to cancellation… Though I admit I'm curious as to why the show seems to be both killing off a cast member and shifting setting.

Haven't a clue. I've actually heard quite a bit of concern that aren't many archives for lots of new media forms.

Haven't a clue. I've actually heard quite a bit of concern that aren't many archives for lots of new media forms.

If John Wayne were alive, he probably would be rolling over in his grave. I don't think caskets are especially spacious.

If John Wayne were alive, he probably would be rolling over in his grave. I don't think caskets are especially spacious.

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